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Agroecomyrmex
| †Agroecomyrmex Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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| Agroecomyrmex duisburgi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Agroecomyrmecinae |
| Tribe: | Agroecomyrmicini |
| Genus: | †Agroecomyrmex Wheeler, W.M., 1910 |
| Type species | |
| Myrmica duisburgi, now Agroecomyrmex duisburgi | |
| Diversity | |
| 1 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and Bitterfeld amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †AGROECOMYRMEX [Agroecomyrmecinae]
- †Agroecomyrmex Wheeler, W.M. 1910a: 265. Type-species: †Myrmica duisburgi, by original designation.
- [†Agroecomyrmex also described as new by Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 56.]
Wheeler (1910) first proposed this genus to place a Baltic amber fossil described by Mayr:
Lachnomyrmex seems to be related to Apsychomyrmex, Calyptomyrmex and Agroecomyrmex gen. nov., to which I refer the peculiar Myrmica duisburgi (= Agroecomyrmex duisburgi ) described by Mayr from the Baltic amber. The differences between Lachnomyrmex and Apsychomyrmex will be readily appreciated by comparison of Figs. 2 and 3. Calyptomyrmex and Agroecomyrmex both have deep antenna I scrobes above the eyes, but the former differs from Lachnomyrmex in having ll-jointed antennae, an unarmed thorax and a very different type of pilosity; while Agroecomyrmex does not have a 2-jointed antennal club, the eyes are near the posterior corners of the head and the tip of the gaster is directed forward as in the Ponerine genera Proceratium, Sysphincta, Bradoponera, Discothyrea and Alfaria.
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 105, synoptic classification)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 61, catalogue)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 181, Agroecomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Agroecomyrmecini)
- Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1968 [1967]. Tatuidris, a remarkable new genus of Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Psyche (Camb.) 74: 183-190 (page 184, Agroecomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Agroecomyrmecini)
- Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1968 [1967]. Tatuidris, a remarkable new genus of Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Psyche (Camb.) 74: 183-190 (page 184, review of genus)
- Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70: 1-66 (page 34, Agroecomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Agroecomyrmecini)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 621, Agroecomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910d. Three new genera of myrmicine ants from tropical America. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 28: 259-265 (page 265, Agroecomyrmex as genus)
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 56, Agroecomyrmex also described as new; page 56, Agroecomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini)